Expensive Bargains

Expensive Bargains

The cheapest thing is not always the best thing. "bargains frequently aren't worth it & may turn out to be a bigger gyp than the higher-priced real thing! You may get less even than what you paid for in buying a bargain. Savvy? The bargain may not be worth it, & you may have paid less for it but gotten very much less than if you paid a little more & gotten quality!

You're better off paying a little bit more for your meal in a respectable reputable place with a reputation & a name to protect and where they have a large enough clientele that there's a sufficiently rapid turnover so that their food is bound to be fresh because they use it up constantly, & where you know they're going to have good food, tasty, in delightful surroundings with nice people & good for you & pay a little bit more for it.

Even though you're paying more for it, you're getting what it's worth, you're getting what's worth what you're paying. Whereas you could be going to the greasy spoon & paying half as much & not even getting what you pay for!--not even getting that much worth out of what you pay! It's the same thing as with buying jewelry.

My mother always insisted on going to a decent clean reputable place to eat, & my father was always trying to drag her down to some greasy spoon where it was cheaper. Well, the cheaper food you were getting at less price but you were getting far less quality! Whereas by paying a little bit more, at least you get your money's worth. At the cheap place you weren't even getting your money's worth!

And that's true of almost any kind of buying: the cheapest stuff is not necessarily the best buy you may not get your money's worth. We bought those sets of cheap tools & nearly every screwdriver now is broken, we couldn't even open the pliers. It was just junk stuff made for looks. We found out it wasn't steel at all--the minute you nicked it or anything this little cheap tin foil coating scraped or chipped off & underneath it looked like it was made out of lead! Now that's no bargain!

You got a bunch of junk for a low price, maybe half the price of the other tools, but it's just junk & worth almost nothing! Where as if you'd paid a little bit more you'd have got good tools, well-made, hardened steel & functioning & useful & not going to break at the first turn of the handle or whatever. The cheapest stuff is not necessarily a bargain! The cheapest stuff may be half-price & one fourth value, & it may be even worse, much worse!

The same goes with clothing what value is cheap clothing you got for half-price when maybe it only lasts one-quarter as long & wears out in nothing flat or fades when you put it in the washing machine? It just doesn't pay to buy the cheapest thing, it may turn out to be more expensive than the other! When you find out that you paid half the price but when you got it home it wasn't worth anything, that isn't very cheap! I'd call that expensive!--when you find out that you paid a cheap price for something that's even cheaper & a bunch of junk & worth nothing!

Well, the same goes for anything--clothing, jewelry, food, trailers, cars, whatever. The lowest price is not necessarily the cheapest! You may go to a second-hand car lot & buy a cheap low-priced car, but it turns out to be a pile of junk! It needs all kinds of immediate repairs or it won't even hold itself together or run any further, & pretty soon you're paying more for this junker you bought at half-price in repairs & maintenance than if you'd bought a little better car, a little newer, less worn & in better shape & a little later model at a higher price--at least you got your money's worth! When you bought the cheap junk at half-price you didn't even get you money's worth! So that's something to remember, amen? That's true of almost everything in life: the lowest-priced thing is not necessarily the cheapest. It can cost you more in the long run!